Why Did the Cherokees Move West?: And Other Questions About the Trail of Tears

U.S. soldiers surrounded Cherokee villages across Georgia and forced them to move to a new territory in Oklahoma. 13,000 were forced on the thousand-mile journey with little food and no shelter. Discover the facts about the Cherokee people and their struggle to stay united after the loss of their homeland. Primary sources, timeline, maps, index, sidebars, good text features.